The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
ALLEYWAY
A private or public passage or way and which:
A. 
Is less than the usual width of a street;
B. 
May be open to but is not designed primarily for general vehicular traffic;
C. 
Intersects or opens to a street; and
D. 
Is primarily used for the ingress and egress or other convenience of two or more owners of abutting real properties.
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE
Any of the following vehicles when equipped and identified according to law:
A. 
A vehicle of a Fire District or Fire Agency;
[Amended 2-15-2022 by Ord. No. 768]
B. 
A publicly owned police vehicle or a privately owned vehicle used by a police officer for police work under agreement, express or implied, with the local authority to which the officer is responsible;
C. 
A vehicle of a licensed land emergency ambulance service, whether publicly or privately owned;
D. 
An emergency vehicle of a municipal department or a public service corporation, approved by the Commissioner of Public Safety or the Chief of Police of a municipality;
E. 
Any volunteer rescue squad operating pursuant to Laws 1959, Chapter 53;[1]
F. 
A vehicle designated as an authorized emergency vehicle upon a finding by the commissioner of public safety that designation of that vehicle is necessary to the preservation of life or property or to the execution of emergency governmental functions.
BUS
Every motor vehicle designed for carrying more than 15 passengers including the driver and used for the transportation of persons.
COMMERCIAL EQUIPMENT
Equipment not normally associated with residential uses or purposes, including but not limited to cement mixers, snowplows, wood chippers, stump grinders, earth-moving equipment or heavy-duty compressors.
COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE
A. 
A motor vehicle or combination of motor vehicles used to transport passengers or property if the motor vehicle:
(1) 
Has a gross vehicle weight of more than 26,000 pounds;
(2) 
Has a towed unit with a gross vehicle weight of more than 10,000 pounds and the combination of vehicles has a combined gross vehicle weight of more than 26,000 pounds;
(3) 
Is a bus;
(4) 
Is of any size and is used in the transportation of hazardous materials that are required to be placarded under 49 CFR Parts 100 through 185; or
(5) 
Is outwardly equipped and identified as a school bus.
B. 
A "commercial motor vehicle" does not include a farm truck or an authorized emergency vehicle.
COMPANY VEHICLE
Those vehicles that have been issued a license decal less than "H" or otherwise weigh less than 15,000 pounds' GVWR and are used for a business.
CROSSWALK
A. 
That portion of a roadway ordinarily included with the prolongation or connection of the lateral lines of sidewalks at intersections;
B. 
Any portion of a roadway distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface.
CURB
The edge of a street, adjacent to a roadway.
DRIVEWAY
The improved or unimproved place on private property that a vehicle would have to travel over in a direct path in order to enter a garage or carport, or to enter an exterior or interior side yard immediately adjacent to a garage or carport, from a designated entry/exit point on a public right-of-way.
GRAVEL
Crushed limestone or other aggregate containing fine materials often referred to as "Class 5 Gravel," "Class 2 Buff Limestone," "Class 2 Red Limestone," or other typical road base materials.
GROSS VEHICLE WEIGHT RATING (GVWR)
The greater of:
A. 
The unloaded weight of a vehicle or the unloaded weight of a truck-tractor and semitrailer combination, plus the weight of the load; or
B. 
The value specified by the manufacturer as the maximum gross weight or gross vehicle weight rating.
IMPERVIOUS SURFACE
A constructed hard surface that either prevents or retards the entry of water into the soil and causes water to run off the surface in greater quantities and at an increased rate of flow than prior to development. Examples include concrete; asphalt; bituminous; and driveway paver systems with a minimum thickness of 60 mm, 2 3/8 inches and with gaps not to exceed 1/4 of an inch.
[Amended 9-5-2023 by Ord. No. 794]
IMPROVED SURFACE
Areas consisting of pavers or patio block less than 60 mm (2 3/8 inches) thick, and with gaps exceeding 1/4 of an inch (not to exceed one inch) or large (minimum 1.5 inches) crushed rock, gravel, or Class 5 to a depth of not less than six inches.
[Amended 2-16-2021 by Ord. No. 753]
INTERSECTION
The area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curblines or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of roadways or two roadways which join one another at or approximately at right angles or the area within which vehicles traveling up a different roadway joining at another angle may come in conflict.
MOTOR VEHICLE
Every vehicle which is self-propelled and every vehicle which is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires. "Motor vehicle" does not include an electric personal assistive mobility device or a vehicle moved solely by human power.
NONCOMMERCIAL VEHICLE
A one-ton pickup truck with a 15,000 pounds or less gross vehicle weight rating and for which the owner has made a declaration that the vehicle will be operated exclusively for personal use. The declaration must be based on one or more of the following:
A. 
A change of vehicle use;
B. 
Registration of a new vehicle;
C. 
Transfer of vehicle ownership; or
D. 
Registration renewal.
OWNER
A person who holds the legal title of a vehicle, or in the event a vehicle is the subject of an agreement for the conditional sale or lease thereof with the right of purchase upon performance of the conditions stated in the agreement and with an immediate right of possession vested in the conditional vendee or lessee, or in the event a mortgagor of a vehicle is entitled to possession, then such conditional vendee or lessee or mortgagor shall be deemed the owner for the purpose of this chapter.
PASSENGER AUTOMOBILE
A. 
Any motor vehicle designed and used for carrying not more than 15 individuals, including the driver.
B. 
"Passenger automobile" does not include motorcycles, motor scooters, buses, school buses, or commuter vans.
C. 
"Passenger automobile" includes, but is not limited to:
(1) 
A vehicle that is a pickup truck; or
(2) 
Neighborhood electric vehicles; and
(3) 
Medium-speed electric vehicles.
PARKING AREA
Extension of the existing driveway or area abutting the existing garage or accessory structure.
PEACE OFFICER
Every officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violations of traffic rules. A person who is licensed as a peace officer, and who serves as police officer.
PERSON
An individual, firm, corporation, association, limited liability company, partnership, limited liability partnership, and other business organizations.
PERSONAL VEHICLE
Any motor vehicle (as defined under the provisions of Minnesota law), other than a recreational vehicle or authorized emergency vehicle, which is currently licensed, weighs under 15,000 pounds' GVWR and is in road-legal condition.
PODS
Portable outdoor storage containers commonly used for moving and storage of personal property.
PRIMARY STRUCTURE
The house and attached garage.
PUBLIC PROPERTY
Any property except streets, roads, or bridges owned by any subdivision of government, including, but not limited to, the property of school districts however organized, towns, cities, municipalities, counties, and any board or commission of any thereof, and public corporations created by the laws of this state.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE (RV)
Class of vehicles that are not for commercial use, but intended for recreational use, which can be towed, hauled, or driven and are primarily designed as a temporary living accommodation for camping or for travel or recreational use, including but not limited to travel trailers (including those which telescope or fold down), chassis-mounted campers, tent trailers, slide-in campers, converted buses or converted vans, motor homes and boats, whether or not self-propelled. The term "recreational vehicle" also includes snowmobiles, personal watercraft, and all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) of any description.
RESIDENTIAL ZONE or RESIDENTIALLY ZONED DISTRICT
Real estate, whether public or private, located within the R-1, R-1A, R-2, R-3A, R-3B or R-4 Zoning District or those residential uses located within the PUD, CBT, B-1, B-2, or B-3 Zoning District as designated under the provisions of the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Isanti.
RIGHT-OF-WAY
The entire right-of-way of an alley, City street or a county, county state-aid, or trunk highway, including the traveled portions, boulevard, banks, ditches, shoulders, and medians.
ROAD-LEGAL
Currently licensed and in an operable condition such that the vehicle can be legally operated on any public street, county road or highway.
ROADWAY
That portion of a highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the sidewalk or shoulder. In the event a highway includes two or more separate roadways, the term "roadway" as used herein shall refer to any such roadway separately but not to all such roadways collectively.
SEMI-TRAILER
A vehicle of the trailer type so designed and used in conjunction with a truck-tractor that a considerable part of its own weight or that of its load rests upon and is carried by the truck-tractor and includes a trailer drawn by a truck-tractor semitrailer combination.
SIDEWALK
Portion of a street between the curblines, or the lateral lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines intended for the use of pedestrians.
STREET or HIGHWAY
The entire width between the boundary lines of any way or place when any part thereof is open to the use of the public as a matter of right for the purposes of vehicular traffic.
TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNAL
Any device, whether manually, electrically or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and permitted to proceed.
TRAILER
Any vehicle designed for carrying property or passengers on its own structure and for being drawn by a motor vehicle but does not include a trailer drawn by a truck-tractor semitrailer combination or an auxiliary axle on a motor vehicle which carries a portion of the weight of the motor vehicle to which it is attached. All trailers shall be measured from end to end.
TRUCK-TRACTOR
A. 
A motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles and not constructed to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle and load drawn; and
B. 
A motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles used exclusively for transporting motor vehicles or boats and capable of carrying motor vehicles or boats on its own structure.
UNIMPROVED SURFACE
Any nonimpervious surface or nonimproved surface, such as bare ground or lawn area (grass).
UNIT
Any item mentioned and subject to this chapter.
VEHICLE
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, excepting devices used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
YARD(S)
"Front yard," "side yard" and "rear yard" shall be defined as provided within City of Isanti Ordinance No. 445, Zoning.
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Editor's Note: See Minn. Stat. § 383C.425.